This crisis is an opportunity to rethink the tourism sector #RestartTourism
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UN Tourism News #21 | 3 March 2021
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Initiating Preparations for UNWTO General Assembly in Morocco The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Kingdom of Morocco met to advance the organization of the 24th UNWTO General Assembly in October 2021, the first global high-level United Nations event to be held since the beginning of the pandemic. |
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UNWTO Global Startup Competition Winners Announced Startups from around the world have been recognized for their unique contributions to sustainable and responsible tourism in the UNWTO SDGs Global Startup Competition. |
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The Power of Culture and Creativity in Tourism Recovery The shared values and close ties between tourism and culture stakeholders means both sectors can work together to ensure inclusive access to heritage, as countries around the world recover from the pandemic. In recognition of this mutually reinforcing relationship, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and UNESCO have collaborated to produce a set of new guidelines focusing on the responsible restart of cultural tourism. |
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Statistics to Restart Tourism in the Caribbean From the need for enhanced political engagement to developing relevant expertise, the World Tourism Organization, jointly with the Caribbean Tourism Organization, have united their Members in the Caribbean to address the key challenges they face in making effective use of statistics to drive the restart of their tourism sectors. |
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Tomorrow Today - What's new in UNWTO's Innovation, Education and Investments Department? |
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"The year 2020 taught us that the words innovation, sustainability and inclusion must be part of the tourism model that we must promote when we can travel proactively again”- Natalia Bayona, Director, Innovation, Education and investments. The first two months of the year were quite active for UNWTO’s Innovation, Education and Investment department, but this is just a small sampling of all the activities and initiatives that will take place this 2021 aimed at continuing to maintain Innovation, Education and Investments as the central focus in the recovery of the sector. Innovation:
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